{"title":"Construction machinery and equipment market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/433-construction-machinery-and-equipment","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"433","label":"Construction machinery and equipment"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 764 supply contracts for construction machinery and equipment through award notices on TED; the 497 of them that state a value (65.1%) add up to €354 million.","facts":["Since November 2023, 1,072 companies have won 2,156 public supply contracts for construction machinery and equipment in 30 European countries, in 1,144 award notices from 782 public buyers.","1.9% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is United Kingdom.","The five companies that win most often hold 8.2% of all awards across Europe.","30% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":2156,"awardNotices":1144,"winningCompanies":1072,"publicBuyers":782,"awardsWithValue":1376,"awardedValueEur":1077858174,"localAwards":2116,"foreignAwards":40,"top5Share":0.08209647495361781,"singleBidAwards":588,"awardsWithKnownBids":1960,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":23,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":9,"awardedValueEur":1471183},{"year":2024,"awards":523,"awardNotices":312,"awardsWithValue":367,"awardedValueEur":213580844},{"year":2025,"awards":764,"awardNotices":416,"awardsWithValue":497,"awardedValueEur":353821198},{"year":2026,"awards":846,"awardNotices":404,"awardsWithValue":503,"awardedValueEur":508984949}]},"imports":null,"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Construction machinery and equipment market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/433-construction-machinery-and-equipment, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}